I was tired and the fucking headaches man. The headache was horrible. Felt like a tension headache that would. not. stop. I slammed water and took pain and congestion meds. I also watched Stargate SG1 lol.

I’ve gotten it twice now, despite being fully vaxxed/boosted, cuz I work in a hospital in the middle of Redneckistan, and a vaccine can only do so much against the plume of concentrated idiot I work in… Anyway, my symptoms weren’t the usual MO- 99% was just nonstop sneezing. Like, both nostrils bleeding, feel like I got punched in the face cuz my sinuses were so torn up, but still sneezing. Wasn’t a great time.

Tried a few antihistamines and some acetaminophen and none of that touched it. Otherwise just lots of rest.

I recall the long covid symptoms having a correlation with people who try to just “push through” the symptoms and do normal activity despite needing rest, so… don’t do that. Legit just chill until you feel better.

The exhaustion, headaches, and shortness of breath are terrible! Even a walk to the bathroom left me winded and heart racing. When you’re feeling a little better, try to walk a lap or two around your house/apartment every couple of hours. I wasn’t as diligent about that as i should have been and it took me two weeks to get back to not feeling fatigued on the stairs at work.

Covid wrecked me even with vaccination and boosters. Water, and sleep is what helped. I didn’t even eat for a couple days. I could barely get out of bed, let alone stand and cook. Just slept and drank what I could

Lots of rest, drink lots of fluids, and take the occasional tylenol when fever comes up.

Just kinda let my body do its thing. I had only 2 shots of the vaccine. I luckily didn’t have it as bad as others did. I just lost my sense of taste and smell, and had a runny nose.

My friend had it rough, and it kicked his ass for a couple weeks.

I caught it very early, before the vaccine, and the only symptom I didn’t get was having such a hard time breathing as to require a hospital.

I sat alone, at home, in my lazy boy, and suffered. Like others have said, lots of fluid and lots of sleep were the only things that helped. I can’t think of another time in my life I slept that much.

Two of my brothers who had it both failed to recognize or acknowledge they had it, and both had bad falls, one breaking his arm, and the other requiring stitches in his scalp. Be very aware when walking around for signs of fatigue or light headedness.

I had a dog when I caught it that first July, so I kept walking her. I obv kept wide of people but still walked my dog and got plenty of sunlight. I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t as far as what’s going to help with reducing the intensity of this things but im glad I kept getting exercise and vitamin D, and I’m also glad Paxlovid is out there for people who catch it now. Rest, fluids, the med, and still getting a little sunlight and low intensity exercise would be my 100% non medical professional recommendation.

I suffered thru it the first time and did the same thing the second time. Only took some painkillers to cut down on the fever a bit.

I found all I needed to do was isolate, really. I was one of the lucky ones. Just a cough and a tiny headache.

I had it pretty easy and before there was a vaccine. I had large joint pain(knees especially), light body aches(more muscle soreness), some fatigue, and it was slightly harder to breathe. I had never had a cold or flu before, so it was very foreign to me.

I did bed rest, Motrin, and the thing that helped the most to provide comfort was Epsom salt baths. I soaked in the tub like 3-4 times a day for the 3 days I was symptomatic and it helped me feel so much better.

Paxlovid.

I’ve officially had it a few times (I.e. confirmed via testing) and it’s been wildly different each time in terms of symptoms.

Worst was joint pain and fatigue, which kept me in bed for a day and a half.

I just treated it like any other illness I catch working with children, panadol if need be, water, and sleep.

I haven’t contracted it but my wife did. As soon as she said her sense of taste was gone, I masked in the house. Thankfully we were all vaccinated so the symptoms didn’t stick around long.

What I did was keep an eye on my temperature and cranked my space heater in my bedroom to 80°F(~27C), wore sweats and a hoodie, drank lots of water (with some liquid IV here and there), and slept as much as I could.

Having a fever is your body adjusting its thermostat to help your immune system work better and being in a warmer environment lets it use less energy to keep up that temperature. Monitoring your temperature will let you know if it gets too high. Water and electrolytes replaces what you sweated/peed out. The increased sleep will help your body to use up even less energy, leaving it all to help your body recover faster.

I may have only had lighter symptoms which lasted about a week, but this method has helped me get completely over every other cold/flu I’ve gotten within a couple days.